The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-03-03
BREvITIES.



Folks You Know, and Interesting Itemi
Happily and Hastily Hit.
Range of thermometer at Spence, Ty
rec & Co.'S shoe house, Broad street
March Cd, 1887: 0 am, 500; 12 m, 72o
3 pm, TAO; 8 pm, 67.0
Grand Master j. b. Ley attended the
meeting of the Schiller Lodge last night.
At Conrad's drugstore yesterday at one
time in the sun the thermometer regis
tered 105.
Mrs. Anne Mcdowell has been appoint
ed postmaster at Port Walthall, Chester
field county.
Major T. g. Peyton and Major d. N.
Walker, of Richmond, have been in Pc
tersburg assessing losses at the late fire at
Dunlop's factory.
A telegram from Rome yesterday says
Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop Keane
dined with Cardinal Czacsi
Mr. II. B. Owen, of the firm of White
hurst q Owen, has returned from bust
ness trip to Washington.
Congress has passed bill to remove
the political disabilities of Mr.. Thomas
B. Male, who is well known in Rich
mond.
A large quantity of stone was yester-
day received at the new pump-house, to
be used in repairing the foundations of
that building.
William Phipps was received at the
penitentiary yesterday from Wythe coun-
ty He is to serve four years on two
indictments for forgery.
The city hands were yesterday engaged
in the very laudable occupation of sweep
ing upper Broad street in the neighbor-
hood of the Second market.
Professor Intropidi's boys had mi
kado" rehearsal at Moses music bazaar
Tuesday night They will have another
March 18th. The ladies will rehearse
next Friday night.
J. L. McGlone, of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railway, has been appointed private
secretary to Hon. j. S. Wise, president of |
the New York and Southern Telegraph |
Company.
The preparations for the production of |
/" The Barber of Bath" at the Mozart mu-
sicale next Monday night are about COM
pleted. A pleasant and successful per-
Torrance is expected.
The Travellers Protective Association
will meet at the Exchange Hotel at 8
o'clock tomorrow night. Preparations
will be made for the convention, which
meets in this city May I'd.
Mr.. and Mrs Vandewerve, of Germany,
were at the Capitol yesterday They
were introduced to the Governor through
a letter from Miss Mildred Lee, who met
Mr.. and Mrs. Vandewerve in Europe.
Judge B. r. Wexford, of the City Cir
cult Court, yesterday entered an order
nstructing the clerk of the Hastings
Court to summon sixteen jurymen, to try
he remaining convict cases in his court
o-day.
1t was a sad sight to see eighteen able
bodied men not only deprived of their
liberty, but also disgraced, hand-cufred
n pairs marching along Main street yes
erday. They were the convicts return
ng from trial at the Circuit Court. 1
After the full dress drill and inspection
Tuesday night, the Howtzers had soiree !
There was only fair turnout
It the first, but the latter was fully at
ended. 1t was pronounced one of the
lappiest sociab!es ever given at the ,,
Armory. ,,
A balky horse attracted large crowd !
n front OF the postoffice between 6 and 7 r
'clock last night. Every known device .
gas resorted to, and after working faith :
ully for nearly an hour, the driver at .
asst succeeded in getting his steed to pro- 7
eed at rapid pace up Main street.
Among the sights to be seen on Broad {
treet between Fifth and Sixth streets, is
n immense Arctic oyershoe. 1t is sus-
ended over the door of an enterprising
hoe-dealer, and is about twenty four Y
lches in length. Attached to it is a d
lacard bearing the single significant n
ord, Chicago" I